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After a public outcry last year when pulled an ad featurg a same-sex weddg, Hallmark Channel is back wh s first holiday movie featurg a gay uple.

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HALLMARK'S JONATHAN BENT TALKS INCLIVY AMIDST FIRST GAY-LED ROMANCE AND RIVAL NETWORK GAF’S ‘TRADNAL MARRIAGE’ DRAMA

Hallmark star Jonathan Bent has opened up about his new gay-led romance and why 's important for clivy. * gay romance on hallmark channel *

Canadian actor Jake Foy is makg wav for playg the openly gay wboy Tuff McMurray on Hallmark's newt wtern seri, Ri. Dubbed by The Advote's sister publitn Out as the "gay kg of Christmas, " Jonathan Bent has starred some of the Hallmark Channel's most beloved holiday films.

MAKE THE YULETI GAY WH THE NEW LGBTQ CHRISTMAS MOVI

The "Mean Girls" actor will star "The Christmas Hoe," a holiday film about a gay uple lookg to adopt their first child. * gay romance on hallmark channel *

Alberta native Brad Harr is an out actor known pecially for The Christmas Hoe seri, which he and Jonathan Bent played the first married gay uple Hallmark history. The multalented (and proudly out) Ali Liebert has both acted and directed projects for Hallmark, and she helmed the groundbreakg gay Christmas movie The Holiday Ster.

HALLMARK PREMIER S FIRST LGBTQ HOLIDAY MOVIE WH A GAY LEAD UPLE

The holidays are gayer than ever, wh everythg om 'Happit Season' to rom-s on Hallmark, Netflix and more. * gay romance on hallmark channel *

Now, Hallmark star Jonathan Bent has talked about the channel’s creased ph for clivy amid all of the Did Jonathan Bent Say About Hallmark’s Inclivy And Its First Gay-Led Romance? However, until the 2022 Christmas movie schle entry, The Holiday Ster (which was one of the upg Hallmark movi until this past weekend), viewers hadn’t seen one of the films foc on a gay Girls star Bent, who’s one of the leads of the new movie and also executive produced , spoke to USA Today about the importance of the film’s clivy, and said:What's so special about The Holiday Ster is that 's the first time we'll see two men meet-cute and fall love at Christmas.

This third movie followg Romance the Air and Love on Harbor Island has the distctn of also beg the first big movie on the channel to openly show a gay weddg onscreen. However, ’s a good first step that there are even enough movi for me to create this list of Hallmark movi wh gay characters.

FALLY, HALLMARK’S HOLIDAY FARE MAK A GAY UPLE ‘PART OF THE FAY’

The Hallmark Channel is known for s chey but heartwarmg Christmas movi. This year, the channel cid to diversify s sts by featurg s first openly gay lead uple. * gay romance on hallmark channel *

Most gay characters and upl the movi are whe and male.

FALLY, A GAY UPLE A HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE

Let’s be clear, as of the start of 2021, no Hallmark movie has featured gay characters as leads. No matter what official Hallmark reps say, The Christmas Hoe and Mix Up the Mederranean do not feature gay leads.

While I tly enjoyed The Christmas Hoe and loved seeg the happily married gay uple, they played send-fiddle to the ma straight uple’s romantic storyle.

It jt so happens that Jeremy Jordan, who is playg that straight man is also playg his gay tw. This do not qualify as a gay lead character, and dog the bare mimum isn’t enarg Hallmark to anyone. The only memorable thg about this movie was one of the only tim a Hallmark character has said “I am gay.

A MEAN GIRLS ALUM IS BRGG A GAY ROMANCE TO HALLMARK'S CHRISTMAS LP

Y, back 2012, Hallmark premiered a Christmas movie which the sister proclaimed she was gay. At first, I thought was jt a way to keep a man om htg on her, but an earlier scene shows that she actually is gay. It also had the most subtle ht of a gay uple I have ever seen on TV.

THE HALLMARK CHANNEL'S FIRST GAY CHRISTMAS MOVIE STARS 'MEAN GIRLS' JONATHAN BENT

This movie also marks the first time a gay uple has shared an on-screen kiss on any Hallmark work. Though there is no POC love tert as of yet, Dani McKellar’s Kayleigh was given a gay bt iend, which for Hallmark is a gigantic step forward. My only knock on the movie is how Hallmark attempted to market as the work’s first movie wh gay leads.

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